Martha Norkunas

Biographic Data

ID708613
NAMEMartha Norkunas
GIVEN NAMESMartha
FAMILY NAMENorkunas
SIGNATURENORKUNAS M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Are Trees Spiritual? Do Trees Have Souls? Narratives about Human–Tree Relationships

    Martha Norkunas, Martha Norkunas Martha NorkunasARTICLENarrative Culture2017

    This article examines people’s narratives about their relationships with trees, focusing on how people conceptualize trees they encounter in their daily lives in terms of their sacred qualities and their capacity to have souls. It reflects on the anthropomorphic quality of trees as significant to some narrators in distinguishing whether trees are spiritual or have souls. If narrators conceptualized trees as being more human like—with feelings, a …

  • Experiencing the More-than-Human World

    Michaela Fenske, Michaela Fenske Michaela Fenske et al.ARTICLENarrative Culture2017Cited by: 3

  • Women’s Narratives of Racialized and Gendered Space in Austin, Texas

    Open AccessMartha NorkunasARTICLEEtnološka tribina2016Cited by: 1References: 1

    is article examines African American women's movement in racialized and gendered space in Austin, Texas in the mid twentieth century, re ecting on the relationship between race, gender, power and space.It draws on oral history interviews with African American women to consider how they negotiated the racialized and gendered geography of the city as well as the microspaces -especially downtown clothing stores -that were racialized and gendered in …

  • Teaching to Listen: Listening Exercises and Self-Reflexive Journals

    Martha NorkunasARTICLEThe Oral History Review2011

    Listening is critical to the oral history process. How does one teach students to listen? This article describes a series of listening exercises the author designed for her students and the reflexive journals they kept to record their responses to the exercises. One of the motivations for the deepening of listening skills was to assist students in becoming more sensitive to issues involved in listening to someone who was different from them in si…

  • Landmarks of American Women's History

    Martha NorkunasARTICLEThe Public Historian2005

  • Narratives of Resistance and the Consequences of Resistance

    Martha NorkunasARTICLEJournal of Folklore Research2004Cited by: 1References: 5

    Some among us have constructed narratives of resistance to represent and interpret the past. The telling of the stories becomes in itself an act of resistance, and a responsibility to those who have long been silenced. There are consequences to resistance: loss of social position, loss of wealth, loss of life. There are also consequences to nonresistance. Norkunas examines silence, resistance, and its consequences in narrative, in historic landsc…

  • Shaping the Past

    Martha Norkunas, Jeanne Banks Thomas et al.ARTICLEThe Women s Review of Books2004

  • Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts

    Marla R Miller, Martha NorkunasARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2003

  • The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village

    Martha NorkunasARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2000

    Book Review| July 01 2000 The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village, Susan Slyomovics. Martha Norkunas Martha Norkunas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (449): 331–333. https://doi.org/10.2307/542113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review…

  • The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

    Martha NorkunasARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1999

    Book Review| April 01 1999 The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg, Richard Handler and Eric Gable. Martha Norkunas Martha Norkunas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (444): 215–217. https://doi.org/10.2307/541951 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …

  • The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California

    Richard Sweterlitsch, Martha Norkunas et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1995Cited by: 11

  • The Politics of Public Memory: Tourist Culture, History and Ethnicity in America

    Pauline Adema, Martha Norkunas et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1995

  • The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California

    David Glassberg, Martha Norkunas et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California. By Martha K. Norkunas. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xii, 123 pp. Cloth, $39.50, ISBN 0-7914-1483-3. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-7914-1484-1.) Get access David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …